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Which daemons run at startup



I'm writing a script that will need to run across FreeBSD,
Debian, Gentoo and probably other machines, and will need to
tell me, among other things, which daemons would launch at
startup if the machine were rebooted. So I wonder

1) what the best Debian command is to figure this out in a
   scriptable way (which is to say, I know that rcconf will
   tell me this);

2) if there's any general, portable way to do this across
   Unices; and most generally

3) if anyone can point me to a website that lists
   side-by-side comparisons of which commands handle
   identical tasks across Unices.

For that matter,

4) Other than testing for the existence of
   /etc/[distro name]{_,-}version, is there any way --
   without assuming that the distro is LSB-compliant -- to
   figure out which distro is in front of me?

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Stephen R. Laniel
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